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Ice Princess
Ice Princess
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Challenge: Fairy Tales II (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Sony DSLR-A100
Lens: Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha
Date: Nov 29, 2007
Galleries: Emotive, Studio
Date Uploaded: Nov 30, 2007

 © Claire McAdams
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I kind of stole this idea from wanjun while we were talking about the challenge. We shared what we wanted to do and my idea was completely inconceivable because i didn't have ANY of the props needed. She mentioned doing a white witch of some kind and I loved that idea and she said that since she would probably not be able to execute it because she doesn't have the makeup so she said I could do it instead. The actual pictures didn't come out close to how I had originally thought of, I wanted something more fierce and evil but this one was the best of the bunch in my opinion so I went more for the friendly ice princess thing. We painted her face with white ben nye makeup and put glitter on her eyebrows and some other eyeliner and makeup whatnot. This had quite a bit of editing in order to smooth out the skin and give the white look. Sally's eyes are actually hazel so I changed her eye color too and I also messed with her hair a bit to add a little bit of wave to some of the flyaways.

This was lit with a softbox above and behind me taking the picture, a reflector under her face and the background is a large translucent reflector with a light behind it.

Statistics
Place: 25 out of 82
Avg (all users): 5.9216
Avg (commenters): 6.9000
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Views since voting: 1911
Views during voting: 403
Votes: 204
Comments: 12
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/09/2007 05:00:57 PM
Beautiful portrait, well executed concept. I predict the front page.
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 12/09/2007 04:38:09 PM
Nice high key portrait. Love the tones of the skin
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 12/09/2007 10:47:15 AM
Very pretty, love the colour toning.
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 12/08/2007 07:35:50 PM
nicely done
 12/08/2007 11:35:33 AM
Although it looks almost like it might be slightly out of focus, this is very pretty. I really like your use of selective desaturation here.
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 12/07/2007 08:39:36 AM
Beautiful job on the eyes.
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 12/06/2007 11:14:55 PM
Great use of selective coloring here. Nice job with the lighting as well to make those eyes pop.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/04/2007 02:17:07 PM
I love the eyes
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 12/03/2007 11:54:05 PM
Love the movement in the hair and the smoothness of the skin. I think you could have even cropped this closer--I'd love to see those gorgeous blue eyes stand out even more, in a closer version. But very well done!
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 12/03/2007 02:48:58 PM
I like the hair and desaturation of the face. I think something in processing made the eyes and eyelashes oversharp. A trick I use to smooth skin is to duplicate the image and apply a gaussian blur to the whole layer, than erase out the parts that I don't want blurred, than fade the opacity of that layer until I find a smooth transition. The lighting is also very smooth and fits your ice princess theme.
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 12/03/2007 07:03:53 AM
Cool shot (no pun intended). Great eyes and a very nice editing job.
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 12/03/2007 12:23:54 AM
very cool eyes, and love the hair blowing. and that her lips are white too! Wow! This'll do very well.
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